A police officer didn’t think much of a call to shoo off a bothersome “kitty cat” at a home in Casper, Wyo. Then the officer arrived at the home of Beverly Hood. It was no ordinary domestic feline — but a male mountain lion weighing 80 to 90 pounds.
Officer Mike Ableman says he ran for [...]
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Western heritage runs deep in this high plains city, and nothing typifies the local cowboy and ranching culture more than the 10-day Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration, which boasts the world’s largest outdoor rodeo.
Yet, as this year’s “Daddy of ‘Em All” rodeo gets under way this weekend, the event is fighting off allegations of animal cruelty, [...]
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Four months ago, the Bush administration removed wolves from the endangered species list. Since then, 20 wolves have been killed in Wyoming in areas where they’re considered varmints that can be shot on sight. It’s rekindling an emotional debate between friends and foes of the fierce predator.
Sublette County is a long way from Yellowstone, [...]
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A bipartisan group of senators hopes to block importation of livestock from Argentina until it’s clear the nation is free of foot-and-mouth disease.
South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson, a Democrat, and Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi, a Republican, introduced legislation Thursday to prevent livestock importation from Argentina until the U.S. Department of Agriculture can certify that it’s [...]
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A new study has attributed the cause of most dinosaur skeletons exhibiting pits, grooves and furrows to flesh and bone-eating insects, which gnawed on the dinosaur bones.
According to a report in the Discovery News, the evidence comes from dinosaur bones that were buried under soft mud 148 million years ago after a nearby river overflowed.
Utah’s [...]
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A federal judge in Montana has rejected a request by the government to delay a lawsuit seeking to place the gray wolf back on the endangered species list, saying he’s “unwilling to risk more deaths.”
At least 39 of the Northern Rockies’ 1,500 gray wolves have been killed since they lost federal protection in March. That [...]
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He might have led the famous Druid Peak wolf pack had he stuck around.
Instead, the wolf known as 253M left the safety of Yellowstone National Park and lit out for Utah, on the way becoming a darling of wolf-watchers around the world.
Nicknamed “Limpy” because his back legs were crippled in a fight when he [...]
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